In the Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), commenting on the "dream of the Fates (Knödel), Freud wrote that "at the woman's breast love and hunger meet.” 

Our exploration of the midrashim surrounding the “mitonenim” (Num 11) reveals the connection between their disgust of the manna (tasting like breast milk) and  Moshe Rabbeinu’s complaint of being a suckling father to his early traumatic childhood of abandonment and precociously refusing the Egyptian midwives’ milk...